Support for curtains



(No Model.)

B. E. ARNOLD. SUPPORT FOR CURTAINS.

No. 433,509. Patented Aug. 5, 1890,

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI EDWIN ARNOLD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT FOR CURTAINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0.'4=33,509, dated August 5, 1890.

Application filed January 17, 1890. Serial No. 337,161. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELI EDWIN ARNOLD, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Supports for Curtains, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to supports for curtains, 850., and it consists of certain improvements which are fully set forth in the following specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a suitable support for curtains for windows, &c., and is more particularly intended for use with curtains which are draped or tied back in the well-known manner.

It is the object of my invention to provide such a support for the curtains that they may readily, when desired, be rolled up, so as to leave the window free for purposes of clean ing, &c.

In carrying out my invention I employ a suitable rotatable rod, and in connect-ion therewith one or more rods supported thereby, upon which the curtains may be hung in the usual manner by rings or other suitable de vices, whereby the curtains may be rolled up or unrolled upon the rotation of the device.

Referring to the drawings for greater particularity, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window having my improved curtain-support applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved support, and Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating a modification of the same.

A is the frame of the window or door in which the curtain is to be hung.

B is a suitable rotatable rod journaled therein. It is immaterial to my invention how the rotation of this rod is accomplished, and in the drawings I have illustrated a drum 0 and cord D. Carried by the rod B near its eX- tremities are lateral supports 19, carrying the rods E, upon which the curtains F are supported by rings or other suitable devices 6,

so that they may be draped thereon in the manner shown.

The rods or curtain-supports E may be arranged on opposite sides of the central rotatable rod B, as shown in Fig. 2, or on the same side thereof, as illustrated in Fig. 3. From this construction it will readily be perceived that the curtains F, suspended from the separate rods orsupports E, may be draped back in the usual manner, so as to leave an intermediate space open in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1, and, when desired, by rotating the rod B, by means of the cord D or in any other convenient manner, the IOC s E will be moved about the support B and the curtains will be rolled up. It is apparent that only one of the supports E may be used, if desired, and when two curtains are employed they may both be suspended from this one support.

While I prefer the details of construction which are here shown, I do not limit my inveution thereto, as they may be modified in various ways without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A curtain-support provided with two separateparallel supporting-rods fixedly supported with reference to each other and rotatable about a common axis, each carrying a curtain.

2. A curtain-support, consisting of a rotatable rod having lateral1y-projecting arms fixedly supported by said rod, so as to rotate with it, and one or more curtain-supporting bars carried by said fixed arms, so as to rotate about said rotatable rod as an axis.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

ELI EDWIN ARNOLD. WVitnesses:

ERNEST HOWARD HUNTER, MAURICE H. IIoLMEs. 

